It’s shocking to see the images of any wildfire and tempting to read them as a sign they are on the increase. But are they?

The poles are warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, and fires in the northern boreal forest are increasing in both frequency and severity.

It's tricky to predict precisely what the impacts of climate change will be, given the many variables involved. To predict ...

In this interview with me, Romanovsky describes what he has found, explains some of the limitations of climate modeling ... especially on the tipping point of the Boreal permafrost zone—meaning a ...

Research on climate change and on the effects of past forest and fire management regimes indicates that large wildfires and other disturbances will increase in frequency and extent throughout the ...

Other factors like agriculture expansion, urbanisation, industrialisation, rapid population growth, wildfires are also associated with the loss of the forest cover, which would exacerbate climate ...

Mar. 26, 2025 — Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study reports that some tropical tree species are not ...

Forest ecology is the study of all aspects of the ecology of wooded areas, including rainforest, deciduous and evergreen, temperate and boreal forest. It includes the community ecology of the ...

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Forests help stabilise the climate, store carbon, and support wildlife. They also provide resources that billions of people depend on. World Forest Day 2025 is a chance to reflect on forests' value.